PM Modi: Choice before nation in 2019 is between majboor sarkar and majboot sarkar

PM Narendra Modi speaks during the BJP National Convention in New Delhi on Saturday. Photo by Piyal Bhattacharjee/BCCL

On a day when the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Samajwadi Party announced a pre-poll alliance to take on the BJP in Uttar Pradesh in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for his re-election by declaring that the choice before people was whether they wanted a "majboor sarkar" (a weak government) or a majboot sarkar (strong government), the latter being led by him. “Chowkidar rukne wala nahin hai, (the security guard will not stop),” he declared.

He said, “These days, a campaign is going on to publicise a failed experiment in the history of Indian politics by the name of "mahagathbandhan". These people are trying to make a 'majboor sarkaar'. They don't want a 'majboot sarkar' to get formed and their shop to get closed again.”

He gave examples to explain why the coalitions are weak. “We saw how the newly formed Opposition governments in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh were threatened by those giving support to it. Some even threatened to pull out support if cases registered against their workers are not withdrawn,” said Modi referring to BSP’s threat to withdraw their support in MP. He also recalled how Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy, who is heading a Congress-backed government, had described himself as a mere clerk.

The BJP’s Political Resolution also commented on alliances being formed to take on the party. It said, “Today a comical alliance known as Mahagathbandhan of desperate, contradictory and opportunistic political formations is being sought to be raised to take on the Prime Minister, the BJP and the NDA. They neither have any programme, agenda for India but the only glue is the hatred against Narendra Modi.”

Modi also referred to Opposition leaders like Mamata Banerjee and Chandrababu Naidu who have blocked CBI’s entry into their state. “What wrong have they done that they're feeling scared? Today they don't accept CBI, tomorrow they won't accept some other institution. Army, Police, SC, EC, CAG all are wrong, only they are right? When I was CM of Gujarat, I have faced SIT probe for nine hours in their office.”

He also recalled how in 2007, a Congress central minster had visited Gujarat and said Modi will go to jail within a few months and asked them to ready the jail. “Amit Bhai was sent to jail. But we didn't form a law to stop CBI from entering Gujarat as we had faith in law. These people are levelling allegations on agencies because they're scared.”

Speaking at the BJP national convention, the PM took pride in providing a corruption-free government, and told party cadres why he had not disclosed the state of banks in 2014 when he had just taken over, as there would have been panic then. "Banks gave loans of Rs 18 lakh crore in 60 yrs and Rs 34 lakh crore in last six yrs of Congress governance. There were two means of taking loans in the country. One common process and the other Congress process. In the Congress process, banks were forced to give loans to fraudster friends. Through Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code we are getting defaulters' money back into the system. So far Rs 3 lakh crore have returned to the banks.”

Interestingly, Modi directly took on Rahul Gandhi, by saying chowkidar rukne wala nahi hain and that the government has got hold of an international middleman (namely Christian Michel). “If attacks have grown against us it is because the middle man (Christian Michel) has landed here. We see from news reports he is involved in Augsta Westland copter deal. In Rafale too, he was middleman who was lobbying for the rival fighter firm. That is why some leader is shouting so much against us, the Congress is also sending its lawyer to the middleman. After all this, it has only firmed up our resolve to fight the thieves. Unlike previous Congress regime which ensured middlemen departed safely (referring to the way Quattrochi was seen at Delhi airport by a minister during Narasimha Rao’s time), we will bring every one guilty to book,” said the PM.

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